Karn Evil 9 Third Impression Lyrics

Karn Evil 9 Third Impression by Lake & Palmer Emerson

Karn Evil 9 Third Impression
Man alone; born of stone;
Will stamp the dust of time
His hands strike the flame of his soul;
Ties a rope to a tree and hangs the universe
Until the winds of laughter blows cold.

Fear that rattles in mens ears
And rears its hideous head
Dread .... death .... in the wind ....

Man of steel pray and kneel
With fevers blazing torch
Thrust in the face of the night;
Draws a blade if compassion
Kissed by countless kings
Whose jewelled trumpet words blind his sight.

Walls that no man thought would fall
The altars of the just
Crushed .... dust .... in the wind ....